Panchang in Pāthardi, Maharashtra Fri 5 Aug 2011

The Moon gains on the Sun about 12° a day. Each 12° of lead is one tithi: 60°–72° is the 6th, Shukla Shashthi. A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise, 06:06 here. Panchami ended at 10:34 Thu, before it. Shashthi ends at 07:58, when the lead reaches 72°. The lead passed 0° at the new moon of 31 Jul, so the Moon is waxing: Shukla paksha.

A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise. Saptami began at 07:58 and ended at 05:40 Sat, between the sunrises of 06:06 and 06:07 Sat. Friday reads Shashthi and Saturday reads Ashtami: Saptami is a kshaya tithi here.

The night of Thu 4 Aug ran from sunset 19:03 Thu to sunrise 06:06, 11 h 3 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 44 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 06:06 to 19:03, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 37 m. Their names follow a fixed order that starts from the weekday, and each name is counted good, neutral or bad.

The night here, 19:03 to 06:07 Sat, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 23 m. Their names follow a fixed order that starts from the weekday, and each name is counted good, neutral or bad.

The fixed stars divide the Moon's path into 27 nakshatras of 13°20′, each in 4 padas of 3°20′. Chitra spans 173°20′–186°40′; the Moon entered its pada 2 at 176°40′. It leaves at 18:36, for Swati.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 108.3° + 179.2° = 287.5°. The sum, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, gives the yoga: 280°00′–293°20′ is the 22nd, Sadhya. It ends at 15:18, then Shubha.

A karana is half a tithi: 6° of the Moon's lead, so the first half of Shashthi is Kaulava and the second Taitila. Kaulava ended at 21:14 Thu, when the lead reached 66°; Taitila runs until 07:58.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 06:06 to 06:07 Sat, so the hours after midnight still belong to Shukrawara.

An amanta month runs from new moon to new moon and takes its name from the rashi the Sun is in at the new moon that begins it: Karka gives Shravana. The Sun enters Simha on 17 Aug, inside the month. The next new moon, 29 Aug, finds it in Simha and begins Bhadrapada.

A purnimanta month runs from full moon to full moon, so its waning half comes first. It shares its name with the amanta month that its second half falls in: the new moon of 31 Jul, with the Sun in Karka, began Shravana. This Shukla paksha reads Shravana in both counts.

A samvat year begins with Chaitra, the month whose new moon finds the Sun in Meena: 3 Apr 2011, 20:02 Sun. Since then the Sun has moved 118.8° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2068; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1933.